If I lived here, every single morning I would wake up my family with my recreation of the big “What a Feeling” number from Flashdance. EVERY MORNING. Which is why I don’t live there. (That, and the 5,000 mile commute my kid’s schoolbus would have to make twice a day.)
All together! Fiiiiirrrst… when there’s nothing… but a sloooowww…. blowing cheeeze…. that your world… seems to hide….deep inside… a mine…
Found By: Solvi B
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This is tagged as Finland, but the listing itself says Oslo, so shouldn’t the tag for this be Norway?
Indeed. Unnskyld.
I’d invite lots of kittens over for a reflection-fighting, floor-scooting bonanza.
I’d love to see the famous near-humanly-impossible-somersault in front of the jury of chairs.
Cheeeez! LOL!
Norway. Still peculiar, but Norway.
Whoops! The “Finn” distracted me. Thanks.
Positively frightening. You’re home alone, when out of the corner of your eye, you see a movement: you jump out of your skin. Wait, it’s only YOU. Repeat ad infinitum.
how very strange, that second small bedroom has it’s own outside door. i first noticed it in the picture showing the layout of the apartment, and then when you look at photo of the room again – a closet with a lock, key and sliding bolt?? i wonder if the owners added this themselves, for a housemate, or if the apartment came that way, and is something that is considered usual in Oslo or Norwegian apartments.
awesome! i would totally love to have a room like that in my house! i’d have my own dance studio where i could teach little kids to dance!
Slow blowing cheese? ROFL. Um, okay. Living the cheese-dream, are ya?
Figures it’s a Scandinavian country. They’re the only people good-looking enough to live amidst so much mirror.
Hmm… my house has full-wall mirrors in the den, front hallway, and master bedroom. I never considered it weird or creepy…. in fact that was one of the things I liked about it when I first looked at it. It makes the rooms look bigger. It’s also handy for checking my appearance when I go out. When you know the mirror is there, the extraneous motion doesn’t freak you out; you just automatically ignore it.
I DO have the headboard of my bed up against the mirror wall so I’m not constantly confronted with the image of myself lying in bed.
I’ve got the fake-wood floor in my den, too. Very easy to take care of with pets. Sara, does this mean I’m weird?
Do you also have mirrors on the ceilings? That might become awkward. And how do you survive getting up in the morning and seeing your just awoken self?
Nope, no ceiling mirrors. And generally I’m too bleary-eyed as I stumble from bed to bathroom to pay much attention to the bedroom mirror. I might wake up enough to see myself in the bathroom mirror, but I think most people do that.
It’s like any other mirror… you start ignoring it after a while and tend to forget it’s there til you need it.
I have to mention that this apartment is in the SAME building as my previous find:
http://lovelylisting.com/2009/07/ill-bring-the-paintball-guns-you-bring-the-ketchup.html
and
http://lovelylisting.com/2009/08/now-you-will-be-cheerful.html
NotNigella: It was probably meant to be the maids room. It is rare to see maids rooms in an apartment building built as late as 1933 , but it’s not unusual in older buildings in the better parts of the city. There was a huge building boom in Oslo in the 1890s, and they often had a maids room next to the kitchen, with a separate entrance from the kitchen to a back staircase. It was used to bring in coal, firewood, groceries etc so you wouldn’t drag dirt through the apartment and and main stairs, and the master/mistress of the house didn’t have to see or deal with delivery men …
I have a lot of full-wall mirrors in my house as well. My dining room has full-wall mirror like in the picture. It actually comes in handy in the rare cases when you have to practice a dance, or just want to see what it looks like when you walk in your new dress. The full-mirror at the end of the hallway freaks guests out when they come in for the first time. They think the hallway is longer than it really is, not realizing that they can see themselves in the reflection.
Well I don’t know about you guys, but I absolutely love this space! Those wood floors are to die for and a mirror always makes things bigger and better!
My Norwegian isn’t so great, but I’ll ask a friend if he’s willing to translate some of the original listing!
Would love to know the “description”…
Take your passion and make it happen!
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